Low key katsura hashino should never be allowed to write another game ever again. Every character is either edgelord cringe "philosophical" slop or just an anime stereotype in everything he ever writes. This game is still sick because the fighting is really fun and the dungeons get pretty creative but sometimes feel a bit too labyrinthian and copy-pasted around. This game's shortcomings lie mostly in the boring but all around pretty unobtrusive story that you can mash through easily enough to get back to the fun part. I also think that the game funnels you into using certain demons and has other demons be rpetty much useless or fusion fodder which kind of sucks, so you'll be seeing the same demons over and over in your party between playthroughs unlike something like pokemon where you usually have a lot of freedom in how you structure your team. It's also pretty much mandatory that demi fiend is a physical character which i find annoying. They still do this shit in SMT5 where you're at a huge disadvantage if you chose to do a magic build over physical which is annoying and vice versa in SMT4. End of the day this game is not relevant anymore and they won't fix this stuff cause it won't get remade. Maybe if there was more going on dates with high schoolers and cool awesome nippon defender warrior ramen side quests it would get more attention but it's probably better if they leave it.